To coincide with the opening of the Holy Year of Mercy, the presidency of the Polish Bishops Conference issued a special message addressed to all devotees, reminding them that the call to “a life of mercy means above all a journey of forgiveness and reconciliation”, which are “the force that can give new life and courage to look to the future with hope”. The president of the Polish Bishops, monsignor Stanislaw Gadecki, the deputy president, monsignor Marek Jedraszewski, and the secretary, monsignor Artur Mizinski, expressed the wish that people’s lifestyles may change, and that people will be converted, especially those “who are far from God’s grace”. On Saturday 12th December and on Sunday 13th December, over 500 Doors of Mercy were opened in Poland. 11 in the archdiocese of Cracow, another 10 in the archdiocese of Gniezno, Poland’s oldest diocese, 15 in the diocese of Plock, and as many as 36 in the archdiocese of Warsaw-Prague. On 8th December, the archbishop of Warsaw’s other archdiocese, cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, opened the celebrations for the Holy Year in a prison, where, as in all jails, the Doors of Mercy will be those of the convicts’ cells.